Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower
This gorgeous book – one of our favourite publications for the summer – explores depictions of the natural world…
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Georgian Fever
This year is the 300th anniversary of George I’s accession, and already Georgian fever is upon us –…
Whistler’s Mother
James McNeill Whistler shares his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts with some unlikely characters. Not least among them literary…
James McNeill Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is not only the first in…
Summer Art Selection
Is there a finer season than summer? The sun is presumably shining, work is in relatively short supply…
Available Now: Josef Albers’ ‘Interaction of Color’ iPad app
‘Color is really the mise-en-scène in which everything else takes place’. Peter Mendelsund, Graphic Designer
Michael Landy: Saints Alive. A first hand experience of the National Gallery exhibition
British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others…
History Catalogue 2013: Retrospectives from Yale University Press
These titles, selected from the Yale University Press 2013 History Catalogue, offer in depth retrospectives of extraordinary events, people and…
The First Modern Woman Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding…
Strindberg, A Life – Sue Prideaux on the playwright’s relationships
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was, amongst other things, a mercurial talent, artist, occultist, husband and father. He…
Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer,…
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art offers a new…
Experiments in Modern Realism
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making in Postwar European and American Art is major study which offers a new…
Edwardian Opulence: ‘The Gown’ by Angus Trumble
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…
The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the…